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|Students handle print versions of each type and identify facets/characteristics of each. Let them see that there is a spectrum to the types of publications available.|| Standard 1.2.a

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|Give your students a quiz and ask them to identify whether a resource is popular/scholarly and primary/secondary/tertiary. Choose some examples that are clear and others that are more complex. Discuss.|| Standard 1.2.a

|Ask the students to compare a review article with a primary research article. Discuss the creation and flow of information in science, highlighting scientific review journals and the role they play in synthesizing the literature.|| Standard 1.3.a

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|Take to USPTO and European standards websites. Students use SciFinder Scholar and Google patent search to locate patents.|| Standard 1.3.d

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|Compare Wikipedia, science encyclopedia, primary article, handbook, etc. Learn how to use each. Learn that Wikipedia is just a collective encyclopedia, not a scholarly resource.|| Standard 1.3.e

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|Compare similar resources in several disciplines -- how do Chemistry and Physics use spectra? How does the taxonomy of chemical compounds differ from the taxonomy of animals? Why is that?|| Standard 1.3.e

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|Show multiple methods to find the same piece of information. How library databases/internet can save or waste time. || Standard 1.4.b

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|Introduce browsing by LC call number as an investigative method. Play a game with students to help them remember LC numbers for their scientific discipline.|| Standard 2.1.a

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|Show your students how to access scope and content information for databases. Then have a scavenger hunt for various information about relevant databases.|| Standard 2.1.b

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|Conduct a brainstorming exercise with your students. Demonstrate the number and quality of results with only one term as opposed to a collection of synonyms and related words.|| Standard 2.2.b

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|Demonstrate both keyword searching and structure searching in a database of chemical literature, or other discipline appropriate database. Ask the students to compare and contrast results from both kinds of searching.|| Standard 2.2.c

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Contents

Standard One

Collect/review written sample of research topic in students’ own words.

Standard 1.1.a

Use "concept maps" or "mind maps" to break topics down into smaller pieces and begin to examine relationships between those pieces.

Standard 1.1.a

Use in-class exercises showing the progress from a broad topic to a specific research question.

Standard 1.1.a

Student compares and contrasts the type of information found in encyclopedias, internet, journals, and popular magazines.

Standard 1.1.d

Student uses a general science encyclopedia such as the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology to find basic information on the topic.

Standard 1.1.d

Keyword search in DB with broad topic and show how find more focused topic from search results.

Standard 1.1.e

Students document a process of search strategies that show a refinement in the search process.

Standard 1.1.e

Students use "Concept Maps" or "Mind Maps" to focus and refine their topics.

Standard 1.1.e

Focused Listing; Students lists keywords and concepts that describe all aspects of the information need.

Standard 1.1.f

Explore need for controlled vocabulary by finding synonyms (chemical compounds and animal/plant names are good for this).

Standard 1.1.f

Students handle print versions of each type and identify facets/characteristics of each. Let them see that there is a spectrum to the types of publications available.

Standard 1.2.a

Give your students a quiz and ask them to identify whether a resource is popular/scholarly and primary/secondary/tertiary. Choose some examples that are clear and others that are more complex. Discuss.

Ask the students to compare a review article with a primary research article. Discuss the creation and flow of information in science, highlighting scientific review journals and the role they play in synthesizing the literature.

Standard 1.3.a

Simple quizzes and exercises putting stages of scientific publication in order are easy to construct and can be fun for students.

Standard 1.3.a

The University of Waterloo Library has an easy-to-follow flow chart for the science publication cycle that can be helpful demonstrating these concepts in class: [1]

Standard 1.3.a

Students explore websites and publications of relevant associations and report findings to class.

Standard 1.3.c

Take to USPTO and European standards websites. Students use SciFinder Scholar and Google patent search to locate patents.

Standard 1.3.d

Discussion on the variety of sources. Start by asking, “In your office, what resources (books, magazines, journals, etc.) would you have on your shelf. Why would you want to keep them in your personal library? What kind of information ins in these sources that is valuable to your profession? In what situations would you want to use these different sources?”

Standard 1.3.d

Compare Wikipedia, science encyclopedia, primary article, handbook, etc. Learn how to use each. Learn that Wikipedia is just a collective encyclopedia, not a scholarly resource.

Standard 1.3.e

Compare similar resources in several disciplines -- how do Chemistry and Physics use spectra? How does the taxonomy of chemical compounds differ from the taxonomy of animals? Why is that?

Standard 1.3.e

Introduce papers of famous scientist(s) to demonstrate the importance of historical information. Discuss historical papers in the context of the specific discipline.

Standard 1.3.f

Discuss the "half-life of articles" in several disciplines.

Standard 1.3.f

During search demo, show ILL, talk about when to use, benefits, length of time, etc.

Standard 1.4.a

Discuss rules of ILL when use.

Standard 1.4.b

Show multiple methods to find the same piece of information. How library databases/internet can save or waste time.

Standard 1.4.b

Some databases offer suggestions/related terms – other search engines may not. Demonstrate this feature to students.

Standard 1.4.b

Complete search strategy worksheet which includes timeline for their research.

Standard 1.4.c

Discussion. What if you find the perfect article, but it is in a language that you cannot read. What is translation going to cost you? Are you willing to pay? Discuss the trade off of value and time.

Standard 1.4.e

Standard Two

TEACHING TIPS

STANDARDS

Introduce browsing by LC call number as an investigative method. Play a game with students to help them remember LC numbers for their scientific discipline.

Standard 2.1.a

Show your students how to access scope and content information for databases. Then have a scavenger hunt for various information about relevant databases.

Standard 2.1.b

Conduct a brainstorming exercise with your students. Demonstrate the number and quality of results with only one term as opposed to a collection of synonyms and related words.

Standard 2.2.b

Create a short controlled vocabulary worksheet for your students. Use less intuitive examples, where the controlled vocabulary term is less common. For example, the Medical Subject Heading for "bunion" is "hallux valgus." Compare search results from keyword and controlled vocabulary searches to illustrate the effectiveness of controlled vocabulary.

Standard 2.2.b

Demonstrate both keyword searching and structure searching in a database of chemical literature, or other discipline appropriate database. Ask the students to compare and contrast results from both kinds of searching.

Standard 2.2.c

Demonstrate one database, pointing out universal elements as mentioned in the performance indicator. Then guide the students to a different interface and/or different database, and ask the students to each of the tools in the new interface.

Standard 2.2.e

Discuss citation searching as a research strategy. Demonstrate how citations allow you to go both backwards and forwards in time from a particular article to track the development of literature on a subject. Assign students to find a relevant article, and then have them use citation searching to find two additional relevant articles, one from cited references and one from citations.

Standard 2.2.f

Create an engaging tutorial about help available from real people in the library. Show a clip in class, or refer students to the tutorial as you emphasize where they can go for help.

Standard 2.3.c

Familiarize students with Interlibrary Loan services. Create a game or exercise where students have to determine where to go to obtain specific sources of information.

Standard 2.3.c

Ask your students to compare two databases on one or more of the above criteria (quantity, quality, accuracy, currency, and relevance). Discuss their findings as a class, and help them understand the advantages and disadvantages of each source.

Standard 2.4.a

Assign your students to complete a bibliography using bibliographic management software.

Standard 2.5.a

Construct a matching exercise with citation elements and their names. Mix up citation elements and have your students match them to the correct name and correct order for the discipline citation style. Include a variety of sources in the matching game.

Standard 2.5.c

Standard Three

TEACHING TIPS

STANDARDS

Assign articles to be summarized by the student and shared with the others in the class.

Standard 3.1.c

Provide quotes from science articles written in the popular media, ask students to decide if they are based on fact, point of view or opinion. Ask them to back up their answer with another source or a counter example.

Ask students to find an article on a science topic in the popular press (radio, TV, or newspaper), then to verify the data from a different source.

Standard 3.2.e

Have the students find out what else has been written by an author, using various finding tools.

Standard 3.2.g

Have students decide and report how they would test the validity of results, i.e. what activity would convince them the article results are valid.

Standard 3.4.d

Demonstrate an iterative searching process with new keywords found in abstracts or subject headings of original results. For a medical topic, perhaps use the Medical Subject Heading "neoplasms" as an example of another term for cancer.

Standard 3.6.b

Have students do a search at the beginning of a semester and at the end as well. Ask them to compare their results and how they may have changed their strategy over the course of the semester.

Standard 3.7.b

Standard Four

TEACHING TIPS

STANDARDS

Construct a lesson on scientific publishing and open-access journals. Have the students look up journal prices for several titles. Explore sites like PLoS, BioMedCentral, and PubMedCentral and discuss how these fit within the realm of scientific publishing.

Standard 4.1.b

Introduce citation style of appropriate discipline, perhaps in context of a bibliographic management software package. Have the students sign up for their own account, transfer citations into the software, and format a bibliography in the appropriate style.

Standard 4.3.a

Discuss a variety of resources within the appropriate discipline. Demonstrate one journal article database and then provide an exercise for the students to do in another database to transfer their skills. Require the students to find at least one book, website, encyclopedia entry, journal article, conference proceeding, patent, and any other relevant resource on their topic.

Standard 4.4.a

Standard Five

TEACHING TIPS

STANDARDS

Teach students about Web of Science/Scopus/Google Scholar tracking of citations and cited references. Give them an assignment to look up their professor in a cited reference search.

Standard 5.2.a

Demonstrate resources like Faculty of 1000 Biology and Medicine, and discuss their value in relation to traditional databases.

Standard 5.2.a

Introduce students to email alerts in a database of choice. Give them time to set up an alert themselves.

Standard 5.2.a

Present the students with two issues, one from a review journal and one from a regular journal. Have the students compare the two issues and discuss the differences between them and how they might be useful.

Standard 5.2.b

Instruct the students about citation management tools, like the “print, email, save, export” options in EBSCO and programs such as RefWorks and EndNoteWeb. Give the students an assignment to create a bibliography with bibliographic management software, using three sources.

Standard 5.2.c

Web of Science, Compendex ,and SciFinder Scholar all have good affiliation searching that can provide examples for exercises on this topic.